Born in Chicago of Catholic and Jewish heritage, Bruce Boston grew up in suburban Los Angeles in an era of nuclear testing, drop drills, rock and roll, and the space race. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, at the height of the turbulent 1960s, where he was active in political protest and psychedelic exploration. His poems began appearing in print when he was an undergraduate, and his fiction soon followed.

Bruce Boston's fiction has received a Pushcart Prize and the Best of Soft SF Award. His poetry has won a record seven Rhysling Awards and three Asimov's Readers' Choice Awards. In 1999 the Science Fiction Poetry Association honored him with the first Grand Master Award in its then-22-year history.

Boston's occupations have included college professor, computer programmer, book designer, movie projectionist, book buyer, furniture mover, technical writer, retail clerk, warehouseman, and gardener. He lives in Ocala, Florida, City of Trees, with his wife, writer-artist, Marge Ballif Simon.

Biography provided by the author, March 2002